matlab.io.fits.getHDUtype
Get type of current HDU in FITS file
Syntax
htype = getHDUtype(fptr)
Description
htype = getHDUtype(fptr)
returns the type
of the current HDU in the FITS file. The possible values for htype
are:
'IMAGE_HDU' |
'ASCII_TBL' |
'BINARY_TBL' |
This function corresponds to the fits_get_hdu_type
(ffghdt)
function in the CFITSIO library C API.
Examples
import matlab.io.* fptr = fits.openFile('tst0012.fits'); n = fits.getNumHDUs(fptr); for j = 1:n fits.getHDUtype(fptr); end fits.closeFile(fptr);